Sakari Timonen

Sakari "Saku" Timonen (born 18 December 1957 in Juuka, Finland) is a Finnish blogger, known for his "Uuninpankkopoika" blog. In April 2017 Timonen moved from Image magazine to Apu magazine as a blogger.

Biography Timonen was born in Juuka, Northern Karelia. He has one brother and one sister. His father was a taxi driver and his mother was an accountant. After primary school, secondary school and the army, Timonen studied social sciences at the University of Tampere. In connection with his studies, he worked in summertime at child care in Vantaa.

After studying jurisprudence at the University of Helsinki and graduating as a Bachelor of Law, Timonen worked as senior inspector at the Bureau of Road and Waterworks Construction from 1989 to 1990 and as deputy city secretary of the city of Helsinki from 1990 to 1997. After this, he worked as an office manager of the construction board of the city of Helsinki from 1998 to 1999. He has been especially interested in matters relating to employment and has been a special critic of rehabilitative work activity

Timonen started his blog in 2010 and has used it to correct false information about alleged social benefits given to immigrants. In his blog, Timonen has also written about false news websites such as MV-lehti and Magneettimedia, correcting false information published on the websites.

Harassment Timonen has been a victim of harassment several times. In 2013 he wrote in his blog to correct false information about social benefits for immigrants, for example by stating that the minimum support grants and unemployment grants given to immigrants were no larger than those given to ethnic Finns. Timonen's blog post was met with hate mail including threats of physical violence.

In June 2015 Timonen wrote about Finns Party parliament member Olli Immonen's connections to the Neo-Nazi organisation Finnish Resistance Movement, after which a denial-of-service attack as made to his blog service. After this the blog moved to Image magazine in August. In June 2016 a dead rat was mailed to Timonen's 81-year-old mother. As well as Timonen, another blogger who had been writing about immigration critics and his three-year-old son had received threats.

Awards On Independence Day 2015 Timonen received an award from the Committee of 100 from his work in dealing with problems in Finnish society.